A Lebanese Rimbaud, Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a Middle East writer and poet, who resides and works in Paris since 1979. More than 80,000 copies of her novels have been published, and her work has been translated into more than 23 languages.
By what name was Vénus Khoury-Ghata, poète franco-libanaise: Une poésie française aux saveurs de l'Orient (2005) officially released in Canada in English?